Our Shadow Report to the Human Rights Council
In April 2026, a coalition* submitted a Shadow Report, The United States Abridges the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment, to the UN Human Rights Committee for the 53rd Session Universal Periodic Review (4th Cycle), United States of America.
View or download the submission below.
*Coalition members include: World Without Genocide, Community Power, Genocide Watch, ImPact Coalition on Strengthening International Judicial Institutions, and Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.
- Genocides and Justice
- Afghanistan
- Argentina
- Armenia: Nagorno-Karabakh
- Background and Overview Information
- Bangladesh
- Bodily Autonomy
- Book Banning – First Amendment
- Bosnia
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- China – The Uyghurs
- Selected Bibliography
- China, Tibet, and the Uyghurs
- Forced Organ Harvesting
- High-tech genocides: From the Jews to the Uyghurs
- “I was feared” – China’s long arm reaches Uyghurs
- It’ll take more than food aid to counter Uyghur genocide
- Persecution of the Uighurs must be opposed
- The Uyghur Ethnocide – How to Erase a People
- World must confront China, protect the vulnerable
- Uyghur Immigration Pathways into Canada
- China – Tibet
- Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ecocide and the Climate Crisis
- Ethiopia
- Gaza
- Genocide of the Armenians
- Guatemala
- Holocaust
- Antisemitism is surging. Here’s a primer.
- Beyond Anne Frank
- Christian nationalism and the far right
- Echoes of 1933?
- Exploring the role of rail systems in genocide
- Incitement and Genocide: The Holocaust and Rwanda
- Nazi Extermination of Russian POWs
- Nuremburg Trials
- Operation Paperclip: Nazis and the U.S. Space Program
- Remembering the Holocaust
- The Forgotten Holocaust and The Continued Persecution of the Romani
- Truth and Concentration Camps
- WWII – The Right to Steal: How the U.S. Government Enabled the Looting of Japanese Property
- India
- Iran
- Iraqi Kurdistan
- Know Your Rights: Threat of Detention
- Landmark Treaty: The Ljubljana-Hague Convention
- Laos
- Liberian Civil War
- Myanmar – The Rohingya
- Namibia – The Herero and Nama
- Native Americans
- A Framework for Reconciliation: The 94 Calls to Action and Redress for Canada’s Residential School Genocide
- American and Canadian Indigenous Boarding Schools and Mass Graves
- Indian Boarding Schools
- On Indigenous Peoples Day, recalling forced sterilizations of Native American women
- Our ‘disappeareds’: Minnesota must examine issue of missing Indian women
- The Use of Native Boarding Schools as a Form of Genocide in the United States
- U.S. Department of the Interior’s 2022 report on Indian Boarding Schools
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Putumayo Genocide
- Racial Issues: Being denied voting rights is a form of ‘civil death’
- Refugee Issues: Nowhere to call home
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Somalia
- Sudan – Darfur – South Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- The Genocide of the Roma
- The Ottoman Christian Genocide
- The World in Initials
- Transgender Rights
- Transnational Repression: A Global Problem
- Ukraine
- Babyn Yar, Ukraine
- Contemporary Russian Expansionism
- From the Holocaust to Ukraine: Enforced Disappearances – A Crime against Humanity
- Help People in Ukraine
- Holodomor
- Prosecuting War Crimes in Ukraine
- Putin continues the Russian history of war and genocide in Ukraine
- Putin, war crimes and war criminals
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The treatment of non-Ukrainian refugees
- The cases that can be made against Vladimir Putin
- Ukraine Selected Bibliography
- When citizens disappear at the hand of the state
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Women’s Rights
- Yemen